United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 06/01/2000 UFW backs Speaker Hertzberg’s plan to move farm labor contractor issue to conference committee
- 05/31/2000 Los Angeles Times: Field Workers need this shield
- 05/31/2000 Whittier Daily News: Assemblyman refuses to back farmworkers
- 05/31/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Farm workers target lawmakers over bill
- 05/31/2000 Mushroom worker kids leads hundreds marching down Oxnard streets for a better life with a UFW contract
- 05/31/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Larger spraying buffer sought
- 05/31/2000 Hearing with state pesticide chief into plight of Earlimart victims from 11/3 mass poisoning incident
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblymembers Flores & Reyes ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/30/2000 Farm worker sit ins protest Assemblyman’s Calderons’ ‘betrayal’ over key bill to end ‘worst abuses’
- 05/30/2000 UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta details Gallo farm labor contractor abuses of vineyard workers in Sonoma County
- 05/27/2000 San Francisco Chronicle: Fairness for farmworkers
- 05/26/2000 Los Angeles Times: UFW Toils in a new field: Cities
- 05/08/2000 UFW Pres. Rodriguez, 200 farm workers lobby Monday at Capitol for minimum disability benefits
- 05/05/2000 Los Angeles Times: Labor Board Gives UFW a Victory in Oxnard Agriculture: United Farm Workers wins right to represent more than 700 strawberry pickers. Officials say it marks first time in 20 years they have had union leadership.
- 05/05/2000 Petaluma nursery workers vote for UFW on ‘Cinco de Mayo’
- 05/05/2000 UFW wins first major stake in California strawberry industry at Coastal Berry Co.
- 05/04/2000 Associated Press: FARM SCENE: Farmer union and rival share representation of berry workers
- 05/04/2000 San Jose Mercury News: Lawmakers back bill to honor Cesar Chavez Vote: Committee OKs revised version for holiday; measure `has wings.’
- 05/04/2000 Sacramento Bee: Bill aims at farm labor practices
- 05/03/2000 Some 200 farm workers Wednesday urge passage of contractor bill
- 04/30/2000 Bakersfield Californian: Chronicles of courage: Exhibit illustrates passion, pain of farm worker movement
- 04/29/2000 Thousands of school kids join families honoring Cesar Chavez’s legacy 7 years after his passing with 2nd L.A. Walk-a-thon
- 04/07/2000 San Jose Mercury News: Schools to teach about Chavez under new plan
- 04/06/2000 Chavez family and UFW leader join Senator Polonco to unveil additions to Cesar Chavez holiday bill
- 04/03/2000 Los Angeles Times: Keeping legacy alive